Write your picture book!

  Lilla’s innovative picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, is back as a LIVE course in 2026! Find out more and sign up here.

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4 reasons you need My Semester of Art School 2025

Hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale is on NOW! If you’re still trying to decide which of our career-changing, job-snagging courses to take then why not just take them all with My Semester of Art School? Q: Hold up. What’s My Semester of Art School? A: Simply put, it’s ALL of our raved-about online art courses for the rest of 2025, at an incredible 45% off. Q: Intriguing. Is this for me? A: It’s for anyone at any stage or level who wants to transform their art career, explore new art markets, build a portfolio aimed at landing book illustration and writing gigs, make their art even better, and make real money from making art. Oh – and all at a brilliant price. Art by Make Art That Sells student Colee Wilkinson for Illustrating Children’s Books. Discover how to make gorgeous art like this for your portfolio, designed to

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HURRY! Our giant spring sale starts TODAY!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our fabulous Spring Sale is on NOW, with 25% off every single one of our courses and up to 45% off our fabulous bundles! Now is the time to snag those courses you’ve had your eye on! Testimonial from Make Art That Sells student Julia Christians – the courses also got her spotted and represented by Lilla Rogers Studio! Art directors, creative directors, publishers and clients NEED your art. Plenty of the hot art markets – including children’s books, non-fiction books for adults, greeting cards, and toys, games and puzzles – are booming right now, because people always want books, puzzles and cards. Whether you’re looking for a change of direction, you’re ready to take your illustration career to the next level, or you simply want to grow your art and flex your creative muscles, we’ve got everything you need. If you want to grow your

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It’s baaaaaack!

You asked so here it is – our fabulous Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle which hasn’t been available since our big sale in 2024 is now back on offer, so grab it while it’s hot! Do you love picture books and would love to land jobs in this amazing art market? Have you already had some success with picture books but want to get booked solid with picture book illustration work? Are you always dreaming up quirky characters and unique storylines, and now you want to see them in print – and get paid for it? The picture book market is huge, as well as being dreamy to work in: according to market research company Cognitive, it was valued at $4,715 million in 2024, and is expected to grow by 4.3% from 2024 to 2031. No matter how digital, online or automated the world becomes, there’s nothing quite

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REVEALED: Check out some beautiful art from our FREE Quarterly Art Challenge

Our most recent FREE quarterly Art Challenge took place in December, and we loved seeing the amazing art that you created! See some of our favorites below, and learn how you can take part in the next FREE challenge on March 1st. The assignment was to draw your favorite holiday food. Food and seasonal art are both great items to have in your portfolio – they’re fantastic for getting illustration commissions for greeting cards, cookbooks (food and art!), prints, tote bags, editorial art, and more – so why not combine the two? The winning entry was by Make Art That Sells student Valerie Hamill, who won a FREE place in Lilla’s fabulous new Color Quest class – join in with our next challenge for your chance to win places in class, gorgeous products and more! Here are a few more of our favorite entries. Art by Ben Chu (left) and

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Black History Month: See gorgeous art from our FREE Black art history course

Art for Redrawing Black History by Make Art That Sells students Katiuska Pino (left), Lisa Wee (middle) and Kay Wolfersperger (right). February is Black History Month in the USA, a national observance which celebrates and pays tribute to African Americans and their contributions, struggles, history and achievements, and today we’re celebrating by sharing some of the amazing student art from our FREE Black art history course, Redrawing Black History. Meet your teacher, the wonderful educator and illustrator Tamisha Anthony. We are thrilled that more than 7,500 students have already taken the opportunity to engage in this course, which covers four key eras of Black American history in a refreshing and uplifting way under the expert guidance of delightful and brilliant educator and illustrator, Tamisha Anthony. Art for Redrawing Black History by Make Art That Sells students Maria Ofili (left), Tequitia Andrews (middle) and Maruga Koops (right). As our way of

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Check out the gorgeous color stories in these flatlay photos

Hurry hurry HURRY – today is your VERY LAST CHANCE to sign up for Lilla’s gorgeous color exploration course, Color Quest! Don’t miss it – we don’t know when this class will run again but it definitely won’t be in 2025! Sign up today and you’ll get instant access to all four of the Mini Assignments released so far ready for the exciting reveal of the Big Assignment tomorrow and tomorrow’s lively private live Zoom event with Lilla! Increase the variety of colors you use and get more work! Do you find that you tend to use the same colors or palettes over and over again? It’s a very easy thing for illustrators – even experienced, professional illustrators – to do, but it may affect how much work you get or how many art markets you can sell your art in. Lilla has carefully designed all the assignments in Color

Replay of Live with Lilla: Color Quest class begins today!

If you missed the fabulous Live with Lilla, below is the replay. Today is the very first day of art agent and illustrator Lilla’s brand NEW course, Color Quest – and there’s still time to sign up!     By the end of the course, you’ll have 12 dreamy color palettes they can use going forwards, four beautiful pieces of portfolio art, will have learned and practiced their color-mixing skills, and will have a whole new understanding and appreciation of color. Here’s your schedule! Check out all the goodness packed into just 30 days. Sign up now and get instant access to your very first mini assignment!  Don’t forget, this is your only chance this year to take part in this course: we don’t know when this class will run again but it definitely won’t be in 2025!  

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HURRY! Color Quest 2025 starts TODAY!

Color Quest starts TODAY! Plus don’t miss the fab FREE live Zoom event with art agent and illustrator Lilla TODAY at 12 noon ET/5 pm GMT! Today is the very first day of art agent and illustrator Lilla’s brand NEW course, Color Quest – and there’s still time to sign up! Join Lilla for a FREE live Zoom TODAY at 12 noon ET/5 pm GMT and you could win a FREE place in class, get live 1:1 mentoring, and more! Join the Zoom here. Our students are already downloading their very first mini assignment, a wonderful color-mixing exercise to start the week. Tomorrow, they’ll build on those skills when they get their second mini assignment: an image carefully hand-picked by Lilla for its palette. They’re going to use the skills they learned today to match the colors in the image and create a brand new palette, and then they’ll do

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FREE #MATSprep Color Quest assignment inside

Lilla here. I can’t wait for my brand new course, Color Quest, which starts in just a few days, on Monday, February 3rd. I’m excited to see what you do with the assignments I’ve written for you and what they do to the way you use color – I know that my use of color has evolved and grown just from writing the course and trying it out for you, and I think it’s going to have some astonishing effects on the art that you create. Lilla here! I can’t wait for you to join me in my brand new Color Quest course, which starts THIS MONDAY, February 3rd. P.S. Can you tell I love hot pink and chartreuse? Today I’m sharing a #MATSprep warm up exercise that I’ve created for you to help you get ready for class. Your Assignment Here’s your assignment to get you thinking about color,

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FREE sneak peek of Lilla’s NEW color course: Your Free assignment inside

Get your FREE sneak peek of Lilla’s brand new color exploration and discovery course, Color Quest! Lilla’s brand NEW course, Color Quest, starts in less than two weeks, on Monday, February 3rd, and we’re so excited! It’s going to transform your art and create a wave of beautiful artwork that we just can’t wait to see. Up your color game, grow your skills, and make your art even more gorgeous in Lilla’s brand NEW Color Quest course, which starts Monday, February 3rd. Don’t miss it – sign up here. Color is one of the first ways that we respond to a piece of art, and it has a huge impact on the mood and tone of a piece. Plus even experienced artists can get stuck in a rut of using the same colors over and over again. Lilla’s unique, innovative course will change all that and help you amp up